Every day I talk, write and comment about the “Cloud”. Every time I mention the cloud I try to make sure that I add the name of the relevant cloud operator, “Rackspace Cloud, “MS Cloud” (Azure) or “HP Cloud”. Somehow all of these cloud titles don’t right to me – it seems the only title that really works for me is the “Amazon Cloud”. In this post, I will elaborate about the competition in the IaaS market and I will explain further why I think this is so.
Last week I attended one of the most popular cloud technology conferences in the world – CloudConnect. The CloudConnect conference started about four years ago. Attending the event gave me a clear understanding of the market maturity and evolution rhythm. Check out the following sections for the main points on what I heard and learned:
> > > > > Cloud Performance
The underlying infrastructure performance, round trip time, bandwidth, caching and rendering are to be counted as the major features of an online service performance. In an interesting presentation by @joeweinman (known by his famous “Cloudonomics” theory), it was claimed that latency holds the greatest weight among these faetures. I encourage you to check out his new research – As Time Goes By: The Law of Cloud Response Time presents some good formulas, methods and considerations with regards to online services’ performance and latency (including simple facts, for example, that people tend to prefer selecting from fewer options on an online page – so you can have less content on a page and achieve a better browsing performance).
Cloud Management: What is “Cloud Management” and what areas does it cover? 6 answers on Quora
What is “Cloud Management” and what areas does it cover?
The cloud debate vanished. I will rememeber 2011 as the cloud POC year. We all “ran” this proof of concept and most of us agree that cloud computing just makes sense.
While cloud adoption is the first priority for all IT organizations, the service vendors will need to prove infrastructure improvement and strength. 2012 will be the year where cloud issues will be solved. Cloud technologies’ infrastructures will become better and the whole cloud environment will become more robust.
Check the presentation below. It includes some screen-shots of the most famous outages (Amazon AWS, MS 365, Gmail, etc.) and the common performance issues (Twitter, Linkedin). I hope that these will occur less and that past experience will support future evolution.
I wish you a great and happy new year. A year of happiness and success.
-Ofir,
@iamondemand
Six years ago I led Zarathustra as the company and product manager. We started this new company to help SMB companies to manage their sales, operations and accounting in one system. I was young and handsome but with not a lot of experience in regards to recruiting and employing web software developers.
Ofir Nachmani
“Despite the argument of how the cloud services are implemented, the ultimate measure of the ISV Success with its SaaS offering is how its software services are consumed and whether that leads to new business opportunities.”
Today, as part of the Newvem - KnowYourCloud, I lead product and market knowledge generation and KnowYourCloud - a Cloud Computing Pros Community. Newvem is a new start-up in the cloud computing market.
On my previous adventure, I led ClickSoftware's On-Demand (SaaS) initiative and also held several positions at Zarathustra SaaS development including ContractorOffice.com product manager and company CEO. In 2009, ClickSoftware acquired the AST group and Zarathustra as part of it.
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